Re: information_schema and not-null constraints

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: information_schema and not-null constraints
Date: 2023-09-22 05:59:56
Message-ID: 52f3966b-f3cb-cbf3-c405-3d50980b35a3@eisentraut.org
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On 19.09.23 09:01, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> While testing this, I noticed that the way the check_clause of regular
> check constraints is computed appears to be suboptimal.  It currently does
>
> CAST(substring(pg_get_constraintdef(con.oid) from 7) AS character_data)
>
> which ends up with an extra set of parentheses, which is ignorable, but
> it also leaves in suffixes like "NOT VALID", which don't belong into
> that column.  Earlier in this thread I had contemplated a fix for the
> first issue, but that wouldn't address the second issue.  I think we can
> fix this quite simply by using pg_get_expr() instead.  I don't know why
> it wasn't done like that to begin with, maybe it was just a (my?)
> mistake.  See attached patch.

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